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TRAVELERS’ HEALTH WEBSITE

The CDC Travelers’ Health website (www.cdc.gov/travel) offers destination-specific vaccine and travel health recommendations, travel notices, help with finding a travel medicine provider, and other resources for travelers and clinicians. The home page (Figure 1-01) includes separate portals for travelers and clinicians. Users can also select special populations (such as “traveling with children” or “immune-compromised travelers”) to receive customized health recommendations.

Figure 1-01. CDC Travelers' Health website homepage

Destination Pages

The most popular feature of the Travelers’ Health website are the “destination pages,” each with a clinician and traveler view. Destination pages provide health recommendations for a particular destination and include the following information:

Vaccine and medicine recommendations

Patient counseling information (called “Stay Healthy and Safe” on the destination pages and includes information on preventing foodborne and vectorborne disease and avoiding injuries)

Disease Directory

The disease directory (wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases) is a list of diseases that may be related to travel. It provides a resource on rare as well as common infections, the risk to travelers, and what travelers can do to prevent them.

Travel Notices

CDC posts travel health notices about disease outbreaks and international events (such as natural disasters or mass gatherings) that may affect the health of travelers. The notices include information about what the situation or health risk is, who is affected, how travelers can protect their health, and links for more information. Travel health notices and information about travel notice categories can be found at wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices.

MOBILE APPLICATIONS

CDC has developed 2 mobile applications for travelers, Can I Eat This? and TravWell, in addition to the mobile version of the Yellow Book. All are available for iOS and Android devices and can be accessed from wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/apps-about.

Can I Eat This?

CDC’s Can I Eat This? application helps international travelers avoid travelers’ diarrhea by guiding their food and drink choices. Travelers select the country they are in and answer a few simple questions about what they are eating or drinking, and the application will tell them whether it is likely to be safe. In addition to helping guide their on-the-spot decisions, Can I Eat This? also teaches travelers general principles regarding safe food and water. All recommendations are stored locally on the user’s device, so no international data connection is needed to use the application when traveling.

TravWell

CDC’s TravWell is a companion application to the Travelers’ Health destination pages. It allows users to build an itinerary and receive destination-specific vaccine and medicine recommendations. For each itinerary, it also generates a customizable, destination-specific to-do list and packing list. TravWell also prompts users to set reminders for healthy behaviors, such as taking malaria prophylaxis or getting booster doses of vaccines. It also provides users with a place to store electronic copies of health-related travel documents, such as prescriptions or vaccination records.